Wave RUN-UP Measurements under very oblique wave incidence

Abstract

Under the scope of the HYDRALAB+ transnational access project, the so-called RODBreak experiment was conducted in the multidirectional wave basin at the Marienwerden facilities of the Leibniz University Hannover (LUH). A stretch of a rubble-mound breakwater was built in the wave basin with a very gentle slope. Its armour layer was made of Antifer cubes, at the roundhead and adjoining trunk, and of rock, at the rest of the trunk. A set of tests was carried out to extend the range of wave steepness values analysed in wave run-up, overtopping and armour layer stability studies, focusing on oblique extreme wave conditions, with incident wave angles from 40º to 90º. The present study focuses on the analysis of measured wave run-up values obtained in the tests and on their on their variability as well as the influence of the wave obliquity and directional spreading. Keywords: rubble-mound breakwaters; run-up; oblique waves; physical modelling; RODbreak.